About Prof. Victoria Sutton

Professor Victoria Sutton is a permanent visiting lecturer at VMU Faculty of Law, where she's reading courses of Environmental Law, Bioterrorism and Biosecurity Law. Aside from aforementioned topics. the professor is also researching connections between environmental protection, energy and law. Prof. Sutton has been a professor at Texas Tech University since 1999 and serves as the Director of the Center for Biodefense, Law and Public Policy, which is the only center of this kind in the entire academic system of legal education institutions in the USA. Before joining the faculty at Texas Tech, Victoria Sutton served in the Pres. George H. W. Bush Administration as Assistant Director in the White House Science Office and in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The professor has published numerous books introducing in-depth research (the latest one, Law and Biotechnology, came out in 2007), she has also authored many scientific articles and read papers at conferences.

Notably, Victoria Sutton is of Lithuanian origin: her grandparents and father are Lithuanian. Thus, unsurprisingly the researcher is a big fan of the country, she takes great interest in its history and current affairs.